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...tute school" system began in 1886 after William Whiting "The Widow" Nolen '80 opened the first Manter Hall school and began to relieve students of their curricular worries. Starting slowly, the system mushroomed after the turn of the century, and highly organized cram courses flourished. By 1936 Wolff's, Parker-Cramer, and the establishment of E. Gordon Parker '96 had achieved leadership in their field and were busily stuffing College mailboxes with their literature. "Tute school" advertising stressed respectability and the scientific approach. A high-water mark of a sort was reached by Wolff's in a display ad that...
Like "Kitty," "Copey" and the Yard, the private tutoring schools on Harvard Square are one of Harvard's traditions. Ever since "The Widow" Nolen (Harvard '84) started the first of them, they have flourished at Harvard as nowhere else, have crammed into thousands of Harvard men the wherewithal to disgorge for their final exams. But last week, as students plunged into their annual valley of the shadow, most of them had to get through by their own efforts. Harvard had all but put the cramming schools out of business...
...largely determine a student's grade in most courses). Housed around Harvard Square, the tutoring schools coach students in groups or individually, cram a full course into a few tense hours, sell review notes, other crutches, charge up to $4 an hour. Where once William Whiting ("The Widow") Nolen had a monopoly of this enterprise, today nine full-fledged tutoring schools flourish in Harvard Square. The Crimson charged that some tutoring schools supplied students with ready-written term papers and theses, steered students into snap courses, "high-jacked" examination papers in advance...
Since William Whiting "the Widow" Nolen '84 started his Manter Hall School in 1886, the extent and influence of the tutoring schools have gradually grown. According to the Student Council report, they have "grown out of their proper place" to a degree unique in American universities...
...Parkways and Land Values" by Henry Vincent Hubbard '97, Charles Dyer Norton professor of Regional Planning and John Nolen, late lecturer in City Planning, 135 pages, 30 illustrations, $1.50. Examining both the nature of a parkway and their values, this volume presents a mass of expert information that may be used for valid judgment in particular cases of proposed parkways...